What will happen when xylem placed in pure water

1 it swells up and behave like fountain 2 it shrinks and its walls collapse 3 it bursts like RBC 4 it cracked up 5 nothing happen at all Purely concept based

  • Varun
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it will swell because out side contains pure Water whereas in xylem there are minerals also with water,So outside is hypotonic w.r.t inside so water comes in to make the tonicity equal.

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